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Language models aren’t AI no matter how hard you squint. When we get actual AI (not counting on anytime soon) it will be more than the annoyed developer that loses their job


> Language models aren’t AI no matter how hard you squint.

While you are free to make up any definition you want on the spot, so are others. Yes, language models are just plain old boring machine learning like any other, but machine learning is a subset of what most people consider to be the area of AI.

> When we get actual AI (not counting on anytime soon) it will be more than the annoyed developer that loses their job

Again, while you can define things however you please, so can everyone else. This is what most people would consider AGI, not AI.


We'll never have AI, because once we figure something out it stops being AI.

Modern generative stuff like LLMs and image diffusers counts at least as much as the various older used-to-be-AI things.


A better term is 'machine'. The "AI revolution" has been causing friction for several centuries already, most famously with Luddites' fight against AI looms.


I mean, when the LLM says it isn't intelligent, why question it? https://chatgpt.com/share/127aa0ca-2273-4330-862d-53d9ff3dcf...

On the other hand, if you ask it if it's artificially intelligent, it says yes: https://chatgpt.com/share/37517e92-4c53-4053-846f-ab513e1dc9...




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